Turning public sector data into something an organisation can act on
Analytics contracts fail more often on data than on analysis, and good tenders acknowledge it. The realistic first deliverable is an assessment of what data exists, who owns it, what condition it is in and what can legally be joined to what, and buyers increasingly phase the work so that a discovery stage is separately priced and the later stages can be stopped. A bid that proposes models and dashboards without addressing data quality and lineage is proposing the visible tenth of the work.
The legal framing is a procurement requirement, not a footnote. The roles of each party in processing personal data, the lawful basis for analysis, whether data can be linked across services, de-identification and the risk of re-identification at small geographies, and the governance approvals needed before a dataset moves are all specified. Where the supplier processes data in its own environment, location, access control and deletion at the end of the contract are contractual terms rather than assurances.
What the buyer ends up owning is the question that separates useful contracts from dependencies. Sound tenders require the code, the transformation logic, the model documentation and the trained model artefacts to be handed over and reusable, with the supplier prevented from reselling a derivative of the buyer's data. Where models will inform decisions about individuals, buyers now commonly require documented testing for bias across groups, an explanation of how a result was reached, and a defined human review point, and those requirements are scored rather than assumed.
This section describes how this category is bought generally, across the public buyers that publish it. The figures elsewhere on this page are measured for this market alone.
Who buys data & analytics in Ireland?
GlobalGov holds 20 data & analytics records from 10 distinct buying organisations in Ireland. The most frequent publishers are The Office Of Government Procurement (11 records); Bord Iascaigh Mhara - Irish Sea Fisheries Board ( BIM ) (1 record); Department Of Public Expenditure National Development Plan Delivery And Reform (1 record); Department Of Social Protection (1 record); Department Of Transport (1 record); Department of Social Protection (1 record). Between them the 6 largest account for 80% of everything published, so buying here is concentrated in a few authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| The Office Of Government Procurement | 11 | 55% |
| Bord Iascaigh Mhara - Irish Sea Fisheries Board ( BIM ) | 1 | 5.0% |
| Department Of Public Expenditure National Development Plan Delivery And Reform | 1 | 5.0% |
| Department Of Social Protection | 1 | 5.0% |
| Department Of Transport | 1 | 5.0% |
| Department of Social Protection | 1 | 5.0% |
What are data & analytics contracts worth in Ireland?
15 of the 20 records publish a contract value. The median is $450,068 and the largest single published value is $14.3M. By size, 1 under $100k, 12 between $100k and $1M, 1 between $1M and $10M, 1 above $10M. The remaining 5 publish no value at all, so every figure here describes the priced subset only, and values are as stated by the buyer rather than as finally awarded.
| Contract size | Records | Share of priced |
|---|---|---|
| under $100k | 1 | 6.7% |
| between $100k and $1M | 12 | 80% |
| between $1M and $10M | 1 | 6.7% |
| above $10M | 1 | 6.7% |
How long do bidders get to respond to data & analytics tenders in Ireland?
Across the 6 Ireland data & analytics notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 25 days. A quarter of them allowed 21 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 36. Not one of them closed within a fortnight of being published, so the window on this market is consistently workable.
How often are data & analytics tenders published in Ireland?
Ireland published 2 notices in this category in the last twelve months. Over the last three years there were 7, spread across 17 separate months of activity since 14 September 2021. March is historically the busiest month. No new notice has been published in this category since 21 April 2026, 174 days ago, so treat the figures above as a record of the market rather than as this week's pipeline.
How does Ireland compare with other data & analytics markets?
Among the 7 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable data & analytics market, Ireland ranks 7th by number of records. The largest is United Kingdom (390 records against 20 here). Within Ireland itself, data & analytics is the 64th largest of the 65 procurement categories tracked here.
Where do the Ireland data & analytics records on this page come from?
These 20 records are collected from 1 official source: Ireland Etenders (20). GlobalGov is an independent aggregator and is not affiliated with any of them; each record links back to the notice on its issuing portal. The set is rebuilt nightly, and the counts on this page were taken on 2026-10-12.
Most recent Data & Analytics tenders in Ireland
No individual notice in this category currently has a public record page. The market figures above are computed over all 20 records GlobalGov holds for it.
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